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Statistics Graders and Tutors

Applications are invited for Graders and Tutors in the Department of Statistics at the University of Washington.

These are hourly appointments open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Appointments are made on a quarterly basis. Current pay rates can be found here.

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Research Papers

Towards Complete Causal Explanation with Expert Knowledge

Aparajithan Venkateswaran, Emilija Perkovic
Published 7/9/2024
We study the problem of restricting Markov equivalence classes of maximal ancestral graphs (MAGs) containing certain edge marks, which we refer to as expert knowledge. MAGs forming a Markov equivalence class can be uniquely represented by an essential ancestral graph. We seek to learn the restriction of the essential ancestral graph containing the…

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Stepping on the Edge: Curvature Aware Learning Rate Tuners

Vincent Roulet, Atish Agarwala, Jean-Bastien Grill, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Mathieu Blondel, Fabian Pedregosa
Published 7/8/2024

Curvature information -- particularly, the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian, known as the sharpness -- often forms the basis for learning rate tuners. However, recent work has shown that the curvature information undergoes complex dynamics during training, going from a phase of…

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Bayesian Rank-Clustering

Michael Pearce, Elena A. Erosheva
Published 6/27/2024
In a traditional analysis of ordinal comparison data, the goal is to infer an overall ranking of objects from best to worst with each object having a unique rank. However, the ranks of some objects may not be statistically distinguishable. This could happen due to insufficient data or to the true underlying abilities or qualities being equal for some objects. In…

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Recent News

IFDS Workshop on the Theoretical Foundations of Applied AI August 13-15, 2025 (UW Campus)

The IFDS Workshop on the Theoretical Foundations of Applied AI will take place August 13–15, 2025, at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.  This workshop brings together a diverse…
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Bao Han Ngo Selected as Husky 100

We are pleased to announce that Bao Han Ngo has been selected as one of this year’s Husky 100. For the past 10 years, this program has recognized the outstanding work and achievements of students on…
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Olivia McGough Receives NSF GRFP Award

We are pleased to announce that Statistics Ph.D. student, Oliva McGough, has received a 2025  Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). GRFP recognizes…
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